Family seeks closure and unveils billboard about unsolved murder of loved one

CINCINNATI (WXIX) – A Cincinnati family will unveil a poster on Sept. 13 in hopes it will lead to justice for the murder of their loved one.

Sanchez Lee was shot and killed in April 2020.

September 13, the day the billboard goes up at the corner of Hopple and Beekman, is his birthday.

For more than four years, Sanchez's great-aunt Jennifer Foster and her family mourned the loss of 20-year-old Sanchez.

“Because he was so young, we didn’t expect something like this to happen,” Foster admits.

Sanchez was shot on President Drive in the Villages at Roll Hill in April 2020. He later died in the hospital.

“It's been pretty tough,” Foster says of the last four years. “It's been extremely difficult for my niece to overcome that obstacle.”

A few weeks after the 20-year-old was killed, Cincinnati police arrested a suspect in connection with Sanchez's murder and filed charges.

However, in 2022, the charges were dropped, leaving Sanchez's family devastated.

“I just thought: not again,” Foster recalls. “Now we're starting all over again. It's tearing us apart, it's taking us back to the beginning.”

Now the family is unveiling the billboard on Sanchez's birthday.

“The poster is basically saying: If you know someone, please stand up and say something about this death,” explains Foster. “We didn't want to lose him like this.”

His family hopes this will inspire people who may have information about his murder to come forward.

“We know there are people out there who have information, but if they can share something with someone that could help shed light on the problem, that would be a blessing,” says Foster. “That would be a real healing for all of us in the family.”

In his family, Sanchez was known as a great debater and someone who was always ready for a conversation.

Foster says her family needs answers.

“We have no motive,” Foster says. “We don't know why. Like I said, it's so important to get answers to heal.”

A spokesman for the Hamilton County District Attorney's Office said all new evidence in the Sanchez case would be reviewed.

If you have any information, call Cincinnati Police or CrimeStoppers at 513-352-3040.

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